The Story Behind The Development Of PingMyCompany.com

Posted on: June 20th, 2008   By: Rashid Idris
Under: Development, PingMyCompany, Web 2.0, Zigron Inc

It was one fine morning, when I came to office and started my work on ZEPRS [an under development project], suddenly phone RANG, I picked. Who is this? I am here, sounded familiar to me, I thought for a moment and realized that my CEO is on other side. Yes Sir, was my second reply.
“I need just 2 pages, one where people can add a company and another page they can post for that company. . [More]

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Image Selection in JSF

Posted on: June 18th, 2008   By: Waqas Rajab
Under: Development, Zigron Inc

JSF is really nice, but developers sometimes feel suffocated because there aren’t enough components. Recently I ran into a problem of displaying a list of images in grid or you could say in form of rows and columns and being able to select one of them using radio buttons. I searched on the internet but couldn’t find any component that gave the desired functionality. So our team came up with an elegant extensible solution that . [More]

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Company Trip

Posted on: June 12th, 2008   By: Abdul Wahid
Under: Zigron Inc

On 24th May few of Zigron’s team member went for hiking trip to Miranjani, the plan was to go to Nathia Gali on Saturday and to have a night stay over there and the next day [Sunday] to go for a hike and then come back.
We had an amazing trip and I think beauty of Nathia Gali and Miranjani cannot be described in the words. As we reached Nathia Gali, rain welcomed us . [More]

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PingMyCompany reviewed by Mashable

Posted on: June 5th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: PingMyCompany, Zigron Inc


PingMyCompany is a Zigron Inc product. It was recently featured on Mashable.com. You can read the post here.

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HR: Behind the scene action…

Posted on: May 31st, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Zigron Inc

This blog post covers the behind the scene action for any resource we plan to hire. For this I conducted an internal survey with few of the individuals who actively participate in selecting new hires for Zigron as we need to make sure that our vision is in aligned with what our team practices.
First I need to share what is Zigron’s philosophy behind hiring. Our main goal is to find resources who are truly excited . [More]

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PingMyCompany.com is launched

Posted on: May 8th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Web 2.0, Zigron Inc


After reading some really interesting comments on a post about Zigron Inc on Green & White blog I decided that we need a site where people can share their positive and negative opinions about different firms.
So as a fun project we decided to create PingMyCompany.com. Its a simple project where users can add different companies and give comments in favor or against different companies. Its more like . [More]

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Effective Blogging & Career Development

Posted on: May 6th, 2008   By: Qurratulain Akhtar
Under: Blogging, Zigron Inc

Recently We’d introduced ZEDCO (Zigron Education Company) in Zigron Inc aiming to promote career development and professional educational activities within the organization. In this regard, we’ll have a series of presentations, orientations and discussions. Both the technical and business ends will equally be involved, and all the activities will be given coverage on Zigron Blog as well.
In this context the first presentation I’d on Friday, May 02, 2008, was about blogging and career development. The . [More]

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Startup School 2008

Posted on: April 20th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Web 2.0, Zigron Inc


Today I had the great pleasure of attending Startup School 2008. It’s a brain child of Y Combinator which invests into young startups by students/hackers to come up with really cool ideas. Its like summer camp for startups. It was a day long event and following are few key highlights:

First of all I loved the way everyone got connected with each other via Chat room on [More]

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SF New Tech Meetup and pluggd + Wherever.Tv combo?

Posted on: April 9th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Web 2.0, WhereverTv, Zigron Inc

Yesterday I attended a technology meetup “The SF New Tech Meetup” in San Francisco. It had some great presentations including a very cool robo dinosaur Pleo. This toy has a self learning behavioral engine which develops over time based on how one treats it. Users can also code new behaviors for it.
pluggd was the startup which got my attention. They have a patented technology which helps user search . [More]

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Zigron on Green & White

Posted on: April 9th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Web 2.0, Zigron Inc

Recently Green & White wrote a blog post on Zigron Inc. To some extent their description of Zigron Inc was quite accurate. You can read the post here.

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